The Great Depression and the New Deal: a human story

Purpose: To examine the impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal on a person's life.

Method: Select a person, research the Great Depression and New Deal using primary sources, create a page presenting the era from this person's perspective using a variety of media, text, photo, music, cartoons, and any other content

Directions:

1. Work with one other person and select one of the following people from the Depression
   • farmer
   • union member, working
   • woman
   • unemployed worker
   • veteran of World War I
   • man who lost everything in the collapse of the stock market and banks
   • migrant
   • minority-African-American, Mexican-American
   • other-Native American
   • business owner

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Focus: Include the following required areas:

• your life before the Depression

• impact of the Depression on you

• view and hopes for the New Deal programs

• your view of Franklin Roosevelt

Resources

• Start with this site: Documents of the Great Depression
• Cartoons
• Eye Witness to History
• Photos
• Songs and lyrics
• New Deal Network
• American Spirit and American Pageant
• other sources

Create a page with your person's identity and your group members' first names and last initials

• Use the page to present "How the Great Depression affected me."
• Use text and many other types of presentation
• Make this personal from your person's view
• Under each part post a link labeled Source, and link it to url of the actual source

• Be creative; no more than 50% may be text

The culminating activity will be a round-table class discussion with one another in the voice and person of your selection.

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